Advanced Listening Practice

1. How did Sandra respond to being awake at 2am as a child?
    She had paralysing night terrors that needed her mother's comfort
    She practised broadcast skills on a broken cassette recorder
    She listened anxiously to distant sirens, fearing local disasters
    She preferred the uninterrupted focus of night to the noise of day

2. What first prompted Sandra to examine the archival recordings?
    Anonymous emails claiming the local programming was being censored
    An instruction from the manager to audit the classical music block
    An unusually long four-second gap between a news relay and the music block
    An attempt to remove a persistent hum from the ageing equipment

3. On first hearing the voice, what was her professional response?
    She assumed it was paranormal and began transcribing at once
    She systematically ruled out frequency bleed, crosstalk, and audio leak
    She boosted the gain until it nearly damaged her headphones
    She reported a frequency violation to the federal commission

4. What did Sandra find about the accuracy of the broadcasts?
    About sixty percent of the mundane events later actually occurred
    Every prediction was flawed, so the voice was deceiving her
    It only predicted severe weather in the immediate Berkshire area
    The broadcasts were historical, recounting century-old local news

5. Why did she document the events but keep them hidden?
    She'll wait until retirement to publish and avoid repercussions
    The voice threatened her career if she shared the recordings
    She decided the server was malfunctioning and generating transcripts
    Warning the public without understanding the mechanism could cause panic

6. How does Sandra conduct herself on shift now?
    She does her routine duties while listening to the voice in the gaps
    She alters the schedule to prevent any gaps of dead air
    She ignores the equipment and spends the shift transcribing
    She invites colleagues in to try to verify the audio

7. What did the voice predict in the most recent Thursday broadcast?
    An earthquake in the Connecticut valley damaging local schools
    A fishing vessel losing its engine and drifting before the Coast Guard came
    A failure of the station's transmitter, silencing the frequency
    A heated school board meeting dispute in Pittsfield

8. What does Sandra intend to do about the Gloucester boat?
    Cross-check the broadcast against marine reports next week
    Anonymously warn the Coast Guard before it happens
    Delete the recording to erase the evidence
    Broadcast the transcript to prove her story